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They're upset that a political party convinced them to support genocide and feel the need to lash out.

I just couldn't let the original commentor get away with saying the most ridiculous shit in this thread, I had to top them.

Actually, tetris is really a commentary about the brief and fragile ethnostate in Constantinople as the Byzantine empire fell to the Ottoman empire.

Very true, however I was merely drawing a distinction between those drafted and tossed aside, and those who the original commenter said had committed horrors abroad. This guy is more likely to have been complicit.

To be fair, given his job, this guy probably didn't commit wild atrocities. He probably stared at a screen, waiting for the Viet Cong to deploy submarines.

Which is true, the US should not have gone. However, many people were drafted for war in Vietnam, and going may not have been their choice.

I still don't think thanking them for their service is the right thing to say, maybe something along the lines of "I'm sorry you were forced into a horrible war."

The guy in the picture, though, is a senior chief petty officer, which pretty much means he did 20 years at least. This guy retired and is still collecting a check from the government. A far cry from the draftees who were forced into combat and forgotten about as soon as they got home, lucky to have survived at all.

Dude saluted a foreign military officer, to the confusion of all.

Putting the word genocide in quotes like that seems dismissive of the plight of Palestinians.

Hand tight, then torque wrench, 7-inch pounds.

So kiss my north end.

The unfortunate thing is we can't have zero genocide. I just don't want to be complicit in supporting it. I didn't create this situation or these choices, I'm just responding to them.

I don't think anyone thinks trump is going to rescue anything.

I didn't create the situation, I'm just reacting to it. Feel free to tell your kids and grandkids that, when given the choice, you actively supported a genocide.